On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The characters themselves are in the Unicode private
use range and
shouldn't be read out; but of course any use of them should be associated
with a localized, readable title -- if there's not text alongside the icon
already, there should be a title attribute or other appropriate marker.
We've been fixing this recently in the new iOS app where we found that we
had to fix both the readable strings and the accessibility roles on some of
our widgets.
-- brion
Would it cause issues on screen-readers if instead of Unicode private use
range, the existing unicode code points were used?
--Martijn
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman <
d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Something that came up yesterday when I was
discussing with User:Rexx
about the new WikiFont, is how it will influence accessibility, since it is
actually a 'character' that will have effects on screenreader software. I
have no idea what the effect will be, so if we start using that, I very
much encourage that we should go and find out and then document some of the
knowledge we gather into it's style and usage recommendations guidelines.
DJ
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